Walter Pater and English Studies: A Select Bibliography

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Buckler, William E., Walter Pater: The Critic as Artist of Ideas (New York 1987)Google Scholar

Cheeke, Stephen, Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature before Aestheticism (Oxford 2016), especially chapter 7, ‘Walter Pater’s Indifference’, 186–215CrossRef Google Scholar

Coates, John, The Rhetorical Use of Provocation as a Means of Persuasion in the Writings of Walter Pater (1839–1894), English Essayist and Cultural Critic: Pater as Controversialist (New York 2011) – on Pater’s engagement with leading writers and thinkers of the day, including Ruskin, Arnold, Swinburne, and NewmanGoogle Scholar

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Daley, Kenneth, The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin (Athens, OH 2001)Google Scholar

Dean, Paul, ‘Pater in Arcadia’, The New Criterion 37 (2018), 18–22 – review of Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism, ed. Charles Martindale, Stefano Evangelista, and Elizabeth Prettejohn (Oxford 2017)Google Scholar

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Evangelista, Stefano, ‘Rome and the Romantic Heritage in Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean’, in Romans and Romantics, ed. Saunders, Timothy, Martindale, Charles, Pite, Ralph, and Skoie, Mathilde (Oxford 2012), 305–26Google Scholar

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Farmer, Albert J., Walter Pater as a Critic of English Literature: A Study of ‘Appreciations’ (Grenoble 1931) – interesting chiefly as the first, and still the only, published monograph on AppreciationsGoogle Scholar

Hough, Graham, The Last Romantics (1947), chapter 4 on Pater, 134–74 – interesting as an early attempt to give a more sympathetic account of Pater and Aestheticism after the Leavisite opposition to ‘belletrism’ and the critical dominance of T. S. EliotGoogle Scholar

Inman, Billie Andrew, Walter Pater’s Reading: A Bibliography of His Library Borrowings and Literary References, 1858–1873 (New York and London 1981)Google Scholar

Inman, Billie Andrew, Walter Pater and His Reading: 1874–1877: With a Bibliography of His Library Borrowings, 1878–1894 (New York and London 1990)Google Scholar

Kermode, Frank, Romantic Image (New York 1957) – Pater is a significant presence throughoutGoogle Scholar

Lee, Adam, The Platonism of Walter Pater: Embodied Equity (Oxford 2020) – on the importance of Plato for Pater’s aesthetic project and views on educationCrossRef Google Scholar

Loesberg, Jonathan, Aestheticism and Deconstruction: Pater, Derrida, and De Man (Princeton, NJ 1991)CrossRef Google Scholar

McGrath, F. C., The Sensible Spirit: Walter Pater and the Modernist Paradigm (Tampa, FL 1986)Google Scholar

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Saunders, Max, Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (Oxford 2012), especially chapter 1, ‘Im/personality: The Imaginary Portraits of Walter Pater’, 29–70Google Scholar

Seiler, R. M., ed., Walter Pater: The Critical Heritage (1980), 29–33, 194–241 on reviews and early responses to AppreciationsGoogle Scholar

Shuter, William F., Rereading Walter Pater (Cambridge 2013) – on Pater’s habits of self-revisionGoogle Scholar

Wellek, René, ‘Walter Pater’s Literary Theory and Criticism’, Victorian Studies 1 (1957), 29–46Google Scholar

Willerton, Christian, ‘A Study of Walter Pater’s Appreciations’, PhD dissertation, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1979)Google Scholar

Williams, Carolyn, Transfigured World: Walter Pater’s Aesthetic Historicism (Ithaca, NY 1989)Google Scholar

Wong, Alex, ed., Walter Pater: Selected Essays (Manchester 2018) – the introduction, 9–39, is probably the best brief account currently available of Pater’s critical projectGoogle Scholar

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Palmer, D. J., The Rise of English Studies: An Account of the Study of English Language and Literature from Its Origin to the Making of the Oxford English School (1965) – mainly about the early days of the Oxford English FacultyGoogle Scholar

Small, Ian, Conditions for Criticism: Authority, Knowledge, and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century (Oxford 1991), especially ‘Walter Pater’, 91–111 – on the response of Pater and Wilde to the increasing professionalisation of literary studyCrossRef Google Scholar

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Himmelfarb, Gertrude, ed., The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays (New Haven 2007) – useful introduction on the essay genre in the period (especially 18–27 on the essay as genre), though the selection does not include PaterGoogle Scholar

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Russell, David, Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Princeton, NJ 2017), especially chapter 5, ‘Relief-Work: Walter Pater’s Tact’, 111–41CrossRef Google Scholar

Daley, Kenneth, ‘Pater’s Misrepresentations: The Case of “Sir Thomas Browne”’, Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism 4 (2019), 19–34Google Scholar

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Andrews, Kit, ‘Walter Pater’s Lives of Philosophers: Inversions of the Aesthetic Life in “Coleridge’s Writings” and “Sebastian van Storck”’, in Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater, ed. Gillard-Estrada, Anne-Florence, Lambert-Charbonnier, Martine, and Ribeyrol, Charlotte (New York 2018), 200–17Google Scholar

DeLaura, David J., Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater (Austin, TX 1969), chapter 13, ‘“Coleridge” and the Higher Morality’Google Scholar

Wendling, Ronald C., ‘Pater, Coleridge, and the Return of the Platonic’, The Wordsworth Circle 30 (1999), 94–9CrossRef Google Scholar

Coates, John, ‘In Defence of Appreciation: Pater’s “Charles Lamb”’, The Charles Lamb Bulletin 137 (2007) 1–15Google Scholar

McGann, Jerome, ‘The Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites, ed. Prettejohn, Elizabeth (Cambridge 2012), 89–102 – reads Rossetti very much through Pater’s essayGoogle Scholar

Bate, Jonathan, ‘Shakespeare in the Twilight of Romanticism: Wagner, Swinburne, Pater’, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 146 (2010), 11–25Google Scholar

Martindale, Charles, ‘Shakespeare Philosophus’, in Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. Poole, William and Scholar, Richard (2007), 33–50CrossRef Google Scholar

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Bassett, Sharon, ‘Wordsworth, Pater, and the “Anima Mundi”: Towards a Critique of Romanticism’, Criticism 17 (1975), 262–75Google Scholar

Becker-Lekrone, Megan, ‘Wilde and Pater’s Strange Appreciations’, Victoriographies 1 (2011), 93–126Google Scholar

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Jackson, Noel B., ‘Rethinking the Cultural Divide: Walter Pater, Wilkie Collins, and the Legacies of Wordsworthian Aesthetics, Modern Philology 102 (2004), 207–34CrossRef Google Scholar

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Østermark-Johansen, Lene, Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (Farnham and Burlington, VT 2011), 280–90 and use indexGoogle Scholar

Ward, J. P., ‘An Anxiety of No Influence: Walter Pater on William Wordsworth’, in Pater in the 1990s, ed. Brake, Laurel and Small, Ian (Greensboro, NC 1991), 63–76Google Scholar